Rachel Cohn

Rachel Cohn is an American bestselling novelist born in Silver Spring Maryland in 1968. She lived most of her life near Washington DC, before leaving at 17 to attend Barnard College in Manhattan, where she majored in political science since she had always wanted to be a journalist. However, instead of undertaking a career in journalism, she moved to San Francisco to work in a law firm and found herself writing her first novel – Gingerbread.

The best place to start is the Cyd Charisse series, the earliest of Rachel Cohn's multi-book series: it opens with Gingerbread (2002) and runs to 3 books across 2002–2007, ending with Cupcake (2007). Rachel Cohn's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.

Rachel Cohn has 21 books catalogued in this guide, published between 2002 and 2025. 10 of them belong to 4 named series — the largest being the Cyd Charisse series with 3 books — and 11 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.

Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Rachel Cohn's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Cyd Charisse (2002–2007, 3 books), Steps (2003–2006, 2 books) and Dash & Lily (2010–2020, 3 books), plus 1 more.

This guide splits Rachel Cohn's 21 books into 4 named series and 11 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Cyd Charisse (3 books, 2002–2007); Dash & Lily (3 books, 2010–2020); Annex (2 books, 2012–2014); Steps (2 books, 2003–2006).